Place-Based Environmental Philanthropy: The Role of Community-Based Organizations in the Skeena Watershed

This article explores the role of place-based philanthropy in rural community development through a case study Skeena watershed. The is an ecologically significant region Northwest British Columbia that confronting complex and layered forces change being experienced by many regions Canada. Through qualitative interviews document analyses, illustrates how robust ecosystem environmental community-based organizations (CBOs), funded philanthropic capital, extending beyond traditional advocacy to fill important structural gaps development. Though pressed capacity issues, sector shifting towards highly integrated collaborative responses pressures charting alternative pathways for region. complexity scope offer insights other dynamic potential challenges associated with regional processes.